Panhard 178

The Panhard 178 was a French armored car that was produced from 1933 to 1940 for service in the French Army. 1,143 Panhard 178s were built, and they were used as reconnaissance vehicles; the Panhard 178 had a crew of four men, a 25 mm main armament, and a 7.5 mm coaxial machine gun. Nazi Germany and Vichy France used captured Panhard 178s during the war, and France and its (former) colonies of Syria, Tahiti, Madagascar, Vietnam, and Djibouti continued to use the Panhard 178 after the war, seeing action in the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War.